Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Ednam | | To the Shade of Thomson | | Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
| | | WHILE virgin Spring, by Eden’s flood, | |
| Unfolds her tender mantle green, | |
| Or pranks the sod in frolic mood, | |
| Or tunes Æolian strains between; | |
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| While Summer with a matron grace | 5 |
| Retreats to Dryburgh’s cooling shade, | |
| Yet oft, delighted, stops to trace | |
| The progress of the spiky blade; | |
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| While Autumn, benefactor kind, | |
| By Tweed erects his aged head, | 10 |
| And sees, with self-approving mind, | |
| Each creature on his bounty fed; | |
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| While maniac Winter rages o’er | |
| The hills whence classic Yarrow flows, | |
| Rousing the turbid torrent’s roar, | 15 |
| Or sweeping, wild, a waste of snows,— | |
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| So long, sweet Poet of the year, | |
| Shall bloom that wreath thou well hast won; | |
| While Scotia, with exulting tear, | |
| Proclaims that Thomson was her son. | 20 | | | |
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